Rhine valley from Karlsruhe to Philippsburg

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FFH area
"Rhine lowlands from Karlsruhe to Philippsburg"
Old Rhine near Russheim

Old Rhine near Russheim

location City district Karlsruhe and Philippsburg , Graben-Neudorf , Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen , Linkenheim-Hochstetten and Dettenheim in the district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg , Germany
Identifier DE-6816-341
WDPA ID 555521711
Natura 2000 ID DE6816341
FFH area 46.514 km²
Geographical location 49 ° 9 '  N , 8 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '3 "  N , 8 ° 22' 59"  E
Rhine valley from Karlsruhe to Philippsburg (Baden-Württemberg)
Rhine valley from Karlsruhe to Philippsburg
Setup date January 1, 2005
administration Karlsruhe Regional Council
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The FFH area Rhine valley to Karlsruhe Philippsburg is in 2005 by the Karlsruhe Regional Council after the Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna and Habitats Directive) registered reserve (reserve identifier DE-6816-341) in the German state of Baden- Württemberg . With the ordinance of the regional council of Karlsruhe on the definition of areas of community importance of October 12, 2018, the protected area was established.

location

The approximately 4,651 hectares large FFH area consists of several areas and is among the natural areas 222- Northern Upper Rhine valley and 223- Hardt levels within the geography main unit 22- Northern Upper Rhine lowlands . It lies between Karlsruhe and Philippsburg and extends over the markings of six cities and municipalities.

District of Karlsruhe:

Description and purpose of protection

These are near-natural and regenerable floodplain and wet forests with significant occurrences of river valley species and aquatic plants (Trapa natans, Salvinia natans) and rare types of extensive grassland. Great importance for endangered animal species. There are numerous structures to reclaim a floodplain landscape (dam and ditch systems, sluices). Extensive remnants of a floodplain relief: meander arches, former courses of the Rhine with low moor formation, embankments, chutes, oxbow lakes, gravel ridges of different ages of the Rhine systems.

Habitat classes

(general characteristics of the area) (percentage of total area)

Information according to the standard data sheet from the Official Journal of the European Union

N06 - inland waters (standing and flowing)
  
 24%
N08 - heather, scrub, macchia, garrigue, phrygana
  
 1 %
N10 - Moist and mesophilic grassland
  
 12%
N14 - Meliorated grassland
  
 7%
N15 - Other farmland
  
 12%
N16 - deciduous forest
  
 43%
N23 - Others
  
 1 %

Habitat types

According to Appendix 1 of the ordinance of the Karlsruhe Regional Council on the definition of areas of Community importance (FFH ordinance) of October 12, 2018, the following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:

EU
code 		Habitat type (official name) Short name Hectares
3140 Oligo- to mesotrophic calcareous waters with benthic vegetation of chandelier algae Lime-rich, nutrient-poor still waters with chandelier algae 043.45
3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with magnopotamion or hydrocharition vegetation Natural nutrient-rich lakes 642.56
3260 Rivers of the planar to montane level with vegetation of the Ranunculion fluitantis and the Callitricho-Batrachion Running waters with flooding aquatic vegetation 049.96
3270 Rivers with mud banks with Chenopodion rubri pp and Bidention pp vegetation Muddy river banks with pioneer vegetation 010.33
6210 Near-natural dry lime lawns and their stages of shrubbery (Festuco-Brometalia) Lime grassland 006.10
6410 Pipe grass meadows on lime-rich soil, peaty and clayey-silty soils (Molinion caeruleae) Pipe grass meadows 005.75
6430 Moist tall herbaceous vegetation of the planar and montane to alpine level Moist tall herbaceous vegetation 000.95
6510 Lean lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorbaofficinalis) Lean, lowland hay meadows 174.22
7210 Calcareous swamps with Cladium mariscus and species of Caricion davallianae Lime-rich swamps with Schneidried 000.08
7230 Lime-rich fens Lime-rich fens 002.44
9130 Woodruff beech forest (Asperulo-Fagetum) Woodruff beech forest 001.41
9160 Subatlantic or Central European Pedunculate Oak Forest or Hornbeam Forest (Carpinion betuli) Chickweed-oak-hornbeam forest 095.83
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) Alluvial forests with alder, ash, willow 298.89
91F0 Hardwood alluvial forests with Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis, Ulmus minor, Fraxinusexcelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia (Ulmenion minoris) Hardwood floodplain forests 065.20

Contiguous protected areas

The FFH area partially overlaps with the landscape protection area 2.15.012 Rheinaue north of Karlsruhe and the EU bird protection area 6816-401 Rheinniederung Karlsruhe-Rheinsheim . The nature reserves lie within the area

See also

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